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History Takes Stage In Off-Broadway Play

The Players Theatre in Manhattan has announced that they will host the performance, One Nation, One Mission, One Promise – An American Story, a unique off-Broadway play heading for a 5-week limited run, beginning January 12, 2018.

The play celebrates America’s diverse citizenship by bringing alive the heroes who strove to create “a more perfect union” for all its people. In the play Thomas Jefferson, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Martin Luther King share the stage for the first time, while Frederick Douglas attends a Town Hall meeting with Ellen DeGeneres.

The play is written, directed, and produced by Victoria Medina. The cast includes Odysseus Bailer, James Cougar Canfield, Kelsey Lea Jones, Jeff MacKinnon, Emelie Pla, Emma Romasco, Dana Surlock, and Samantha Talbott.